Chittagong News

Here’s taking a look at the 10 best songs of the award winning lyricist…Prasoon Joshi is a man of many many talents. After earning the title of ‘Ad Guru Of India’, he went on to create his mark as a writer-lyricist in Bollywood and has quite a few awards to his credit including two National Awards, Two Filmfare Awards and a Padma Shree. Click here to read more

The Boyss Toh Boyss Hain actor is known for the perfection that he gets into the characters he plays…
Yesterday only we had informed that Emraan Hashmi and Vidya Balan risked their lives to shoot for Hamari Adhuri Kahani, when the duo stepped out in front of a huge sand storm and completed their shot in just one take. Now we get to know that even the third superstar in the film, Rajkummar Rao was no one to be standing behind. He too had risked him life while the shooting of the film, but for a different scene. Wonder what he did? Click here to read more

Bohra Bros is credited with around 140 films, including national award-winning projects like Chittagong and Shahid. Now Sunil Bohra, whose latest offering is Mastram, is on a mission to touch the four-figure mark, keeping the brand’s philosophy of making films with honesty, intact“Starting from my grandfather late Ram Bohra to my father Surendra Bohra and finally trickling down to me, we have made about 140 films so far. Click here to read more

The National Award winning lyricist, writer and advertising copywriting guru turns 42 today
Born on September 16, 1971, Prasoon Joshi has more than one reason to celebrate his birthday in a big way this year. He had written the script of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag which was a great success. It won appreciation from the critics as well as viewers. Click here to read more

Talent from the Indian film industry received awards from President Pranab Mukherjee at the 60th National Film Awards across various categories on Friday
Veteran actor Pran was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, but the 93-year-old couldn’t make it to the event. Click here to read more

The National Awards were announced today and here’s a list of the winners
Irrfan Khan was disappointed at not winning best actor at some of the popular category Bollywood awards this year, in spite of being nominated. Click here to read more

Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Parineeti Chopra took home the coveted award this year

It happens only in India. Surely, a film chosen as the best in the country should be the one sent to compete at the Oscars. But no, Barfi!, rather thanPaan Singh Tomar, was sent and duly failed to secure a nomination. Click here to read more

Putting the unpleasant past behind them, the actor and the director are all geared up to work togetherAmitabh Bachchan and Anurag Kashyap did not share a cordial relationship until they met at the special screening of director Bedrabata Pain’s debut film Chittagong, which Click here to read more

What could have been an impressive weekend at the box office turns to be rather ordinary and dull
This past weekend has been a rather crowded one at the box office, with four big ticket films releasing on the same day. And although there is a great variety among these films – Aiyyaapromised big stars like Rani Mukerji and Prithviraj, while Chittagongcame with a number of theatre actors and Makkhi is a CGI (computer generated imagery aka special effects)-loaded South Indian film – they all fared below average. Click here to read more

Putting the unpleasant past behind them, the father-son duo might work with the Dev.D director soon
Anurag Kashyap claims to be one of the biggest fans of Amitabh Bachchan and we could see a hint of that in his coal mafia gangster flick Gangs Of Wasseypur. But things weren’t kosher between them for a very long time. Click here to read more

Watch the melodiously classical number from director Bedabrata Pain’s new filmChittagong has been languishing in the cans for a while now, waiting for a proper theatrical release. But that didn’t stop director Bedabrata Pain taking his pet project to international film festivals and winning accolades. Click here to read more

The poster boy of Indie cinema found himself in an awkward situation thanks to an error by Chittagong‘s producer Sunil Bohra
It is rumoured that Amitabh Bachchan had used his clout to stop the release of director Bedabrata Pain’s Chittagong, because it was based on the same lines as that of the Abhishek Bachchan-Deepika Padukone-starrer Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Se, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. While Gowariker’s film released and hardly found any takers, Bedabrata’s version of the uprising in Chittagong was seen and appreciated by many people, especially by hatke filmmakers like Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra and Vishal Bhardwaj. Click here to read more